{"id":37155,"date":"2020-10-15T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37155"},"modified":"2020-10-14T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T22:07:00","slug":"offgrid-mindfulness-alarm-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/offgrid-mindfulness-alarm-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Offgrid Mindfulness Alarm Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finally establishing a meditation routine, I wanted something to guide me that wasn\u2019t my phone. When I used my phone and an app, I found that I was checking email or news or other alerts on my way to the meditation app before sitting down. And then I was picking it up immediately after meditating \u2014 even if I was just using a timer \u2014 and be thrust right back into my digital life. I wanted the benefits of a meditation app timer without the phone. I\u2019ve known about the<a href=\"https:\/\/now-zen.com\/\"> Zen Alarm Clock<\/a> for a long time, but the cost ($150) and reviews describing frustrations with the quality gave me pause, so I kept looking.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been using the <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/mindfulness-clock\">Offgrid Mindfulness Alarm Clock<\/a>\u00a0for over seven months, and it fits my mediation needs perfectly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can set the timer duration of my choosing<\/li>\n<li>I can include a warm-up period of my choosing<\/li>\n<li>I can set interval chimes every X minutes<\/li>\n<li>It counts up after the timer is complete, in case I want to track how long I continue to sit<\/li>\n<li>I can shut off the screen so I don\u2019t see the timer at all<\/li>\n<li>It has a simple meditation chime (can be set low or high)<\/li>\n<li>It can be briefly backlit with the press of a button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Added benefit (and this might be its best feature long term): it\u2019s replaced my phone as an alarm clock and removed my phone from my bedroom. In the morning, the meditation alarm clock goes off. I pick it up and take it wherever I\u2019m meditating. It&#8217;s the perfect digital detox companion if you\u2019re trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/phone-breakup\">break up with your phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also great for travel. It takes a little bit to get comfortable with all the settings, but after a week or so I was able to change everything in the dark. The low chime setting is still a bit loud at 5 am for my partner (what alarm isn\u2019t?), so I added some duct tape over the speaker grill to dampen it further.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation timer that&#8217;s not connected to the internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37157,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155\/revisions\/37157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}